Freedom war

Independence is the cherished dream of a state. There is as much pride in being an independent citizen of an independent country as there is in being submissive. And so no one wants to live in subjugation. No one wants to be bound by the chains of slavery. The Bengali nation also did not want to be enslaved by the Pakistanis in the years of rule and exploitation. So they broke the chain and came out in the movement, became vocal in the freedom struggle. With blood, with life, the brave Bengalis have snatched freedom. The country's independence was achieved in 1971 at the cost of 3 million lives and the loss of the dignity of millions of heroines. Freedom-loving people have lost everything. But despite losing everything, they have achieved a country of independent sovereign dream-Bangladesh.

Background: Although the independent state of Pakistan was established in 1947 on the basis of biracialism, the Bengali nation did not get any independent state. Because West Pakistan has never given equal status to East Pakistan. Rather, he always wanted to keep East Pakistan down. This is like another slave state inside the state. East Pakistan continues to be plagued by cultural, economic, military and political inequalities of West Pakistan. Although the raw material, production, income and export income of the product was higher in East Pakistan, the expenditure for East Pakistan was very low. The lion's share of the country's total expenditure was spent on West Pakistan. Where 95% was spent on defense of West Pakistan, 5% was spent on defense of East Pakistan. Although the Awami League was elected in the 1970 elections, the Western ruling class did not want to hand over power to the Bengalis. As a result, due to all these inequalities, the liberation war of the Bengalis became inevitable.

Emergence of Bengali Nationalism: The political consciousness and nationalism of the Bengali nation was started through the language movement. In the wake of Muhammad Ali Jinnah's declaration to make Urdu the sole state language, the language movement began to demand that Bengal be made the state language. This language movement took its final form on 21st February 1952. Rafiq, Salam, Barkat, Jabbar and many others were killed on the streets that day demanding language. There is no other instance in the history of the world where one has to give one's life for the sake of language and protect one's mother tongue with blood. When language and culture are hurt, Bengalis can understand their uniqueness. The identity of 'Bengali nation' began to take root among them. Inspired by nationalism, several organizations were formed at that time. The United Front elections of 1954, the movement against the Education Commission of '62, the historic six-point demands of '76, the mass uprising of '69, the victory of the Awami League in 16 seats in the elections of '70, all these events raised the nationalist consciousness of Bengalis. That nationalism gained final recognition through the armed liberation war of 1971.

Call for independence: In the face of the mass uprising of 1969, the oppressive West Pakistani ruler was forced to release Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the main accused in the 'Agartala conspiracy case'. After his release, on 23 February 1969, he was conferred the title of Bangabandhu at a huge public meeting at Racecourse Maidan. On March 7, 1971, he wrote the greatest poem of freedom in the history of the country. In front of millions of people who are looking forward to independence, he said in a thunderous voice that the desired words ‘People of Bengal want liberation today. . . This time the struggle is for liberation, this time the struggle is for freedom. '

The night of March 25: The Awami League won the by-elections in the 70's, but the Pakistani ruling party did not hand over power. Instead, Yahya Khan started making excuses by declaring Bangabandhu the future Prime Minister of Pakistan. The Mujib-Yahya farce meeting lasted from March 18 to 26. And on Yahya's orders, arms and military forces started coming to East Pakistan secretly. Yahya, the perpetrator of one of the most heinous genocides in the world, then left Dhaka, instructing the invading forces not to want the people of East Pakistan. The heinous massacre of history began. Which is known as 'Operation Search Light'. On the night of March 25, the invading forces attacked the sleeping unarmed Bengalis. That night Bangabandhu was arrested from his house No. 32 in Dhanmondi. But before that he declared independence. Bangabandhu's first independence from Chittagong radio station on March 26 at 2 pm